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Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo has a mysterious persona. We don’t really know much about him or his personal life. What we do know is that on the basketball court, he is like a heat-seeking missile, able to throw an array of pinpoint passes that get his teammates easy buckets. Thanks to a revealing interview from Lee Jenkins of Sports Illustrated , we now know that on the court isn’t the only place Rondo is a cerebral assassin. Dating back to his childhood, it’s reported that he is undefeated in the popular kids game Connect Four.
Via Sports Illustrated:
Rondo would set up a Connect Four grid on the front porch and play deep into the night, welcoming friends and family members to his stoop, and then dispatching them all. “He beat everybody,” says his mom, Amber Rondo. The boy possessed an unearthly ability to see the entire board and think three moves ahead.
Hahaha. (Credit: blogs.thescore.com)
But Rondo’s affinity for Connect Four didn’t stop as a kid, because playing the game with whoever dares to challenge him is apparently his go to move at charity events. More from Sports Illustrated:
So at charity functions he perched behind a folding table…he just played Connect Four, against anybody who dared, usually two grids at a time and sometimes three. “This has been going on for six years,” Matt Meyersohn, the Celtics’ director of community relations, said on Dec. 22 during an event at the Blue Hill Boys & Girls Club in Dorchester, Mass. “He’s played hundreds of Connect Four games, maybe a thousand. And he’s never lost.”
So there you have it, folks. Rajon Rondo has never lost in Connect Four. This doesn’t surprise me, as he is a master technician in the highest level of basketball. How hard can Connect Four be if you’re Rajon Rondo? I think the best part is he doesn’t let kids win so he can keep his winning streak intact.
